Date: Wed, 03 Apr 96 09:09:06 PST From: "Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com> To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>, terry@lambert.org Cc: terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hacked kernel with option to disable "green" mode Message-ID: <9603038285.AA828550942@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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>> It seems to me the best place for disabling "green" mode would be in >> a user hack to the /etc/rc.local. > Exactly. hdparm (8) does this for Linux, and that is how it is usually > set up. Call the command in rc.local, no kernel hacking other than the > interface to allow root processes to send commands to the drive (not sure > hdparm is a generic ioctl interface or not). This would not work for installation. I couldn't get FreeBSD *installed* before I added the hard disk code to the kernel. --Brett
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